The deadline for the 2019 Student Paper/Video Competition is sometime in April 2019.

The American National Standards Institute(ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, and its Committee on Education (CoE) hosts a paper competition every year. The purpose of this competition is part of an ANSI-led effort to raise awareness about the strategic importance of standards and conformance among U.S. undergraduate and graduate students.

The ANSI Committee on Education is in the process of judging the 2018 papers but it is not soon for students and faculty to begin drafting 2019 entries. Copies of winning papers are linked below.

Entries are due sometime in April 2019. The ANSI Committee on Education will announce the topic of the competition and the exact due date very soon. When that information is released to the public we will pass that information on.

Since video and multi-media entries also qualify we have linked some video examples below:

Faculty and students are welcomed to click in to our weekly Open Door teleconferences — every Wednesday 11:00 AM Eastern time — to become familiar with the the nuts and bolts of standards advocacy from our point of view (ABOUT). Click here to log in.

April 27, 2018

The American National Standards Institute(ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, and its Committee on Education (CoE) hosts a paper competition every year. The purpose of this competition is part of an ANSI-led effort to raise awareness about the strategic importance of standards and conformance among U.S. undergraduate and graduate students.

The 2017 winners are:

Tiana Ashley Khong of San Jose State University of California is the first-place winner with a paper titled, “The World of 2050: Safety by Design” which introduces readers to a futuristic world in which international governments and technology companies have created safety-by-design service standards with the motto “safety before innovation.” The paper emphasizes how the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) will lead to innovative intelligent buildings, autonomous vehicles, and smart roads—and these systems will increasingly rely on service safety standards to ensure optimal security for consumers and the public.

Qahtan Al Jammali of the City University of New York is the second-place winner with a paper titled, “Cyborg Gen2330” which is a letter written by a hybrid human machine, and highlights standards’ critical role in the compatibility and safety and well-being of all biological and mechanical constituents of the universe.

There was a cash prize and travel funding to attend World Standards Week earlier this month.

Information about submitting papers and/or videos for the 2018 competition is available at this link (Click here) or by contacting Lisa Lisa Rajchel (lrajchel@ansi.org) or Monte Bogatz (monte.bogatz@iampo.org).

Entries are due by 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, April 27, 2018.

The 2016 winners were:

Karmin Chongof the City College of New York are the first-place winners:

A review of education facility industry consensus and open source standards that set the standard of care for premises security, emergency management and active shooter events. We are active in about 10 standards, or parts of standards. We will likely be marking up redlines open for public review or setting up breakout sessions to “get down in the weeds” if necessary. It is usually necessary.

Status check on standards action that guide laboratory safety and sustainability in all building disciplines. There are about ten standards developers in this space and they do not all move in a coordinated manner among themselves; much less from state-to-state. Anyone is welcomed to join this teleconference with the login information below. For an agenda, please join our mailing list.

Examine public input for the 2020 National Electrical Code that is relevant to the education facilities industry and prepare public comment. The second of three breakout teleconferences ahead of the August 30th deadline.

BSR/NSF 14-201x (i97r3), Plastics Piping System Components and Related Materials (revision of ANSI/NSF 14-2017). This Standard establishes minimum physical, performance, and health effects requirements for plastic piping system components and related materials. These criteria were established for the protection of public health and the environment. Click here to view these changes in full: ANSI Standards Action | PDF Pages 32-33

Status check on the rapidly expanding constellation of consensus and open source standards that will guide safety and sustainability regulations for the emergent #SmartCampus. Of the 250-odd ANSI accredited standards developers we count about 50 of them active in capturing some aspect of the Internet of Things transformation. There are even more open source standards developers in this space. As is our custom, we will focus on public commenting opportunities that consensus and open source standards developers; scheduling breakout work sessions with user-interest subject matter experts as necessary.

Review and interactive discussion of codes and standards appearing in several hundred design, construction, operation & maintenance documents distributed to suppliers to the education facility industry. This is a chance for design and engineering staffs to learn about what other institutions are doing with respect to establishing accepted good practice, conforming to safety and sustainability regulations, and what local adaptations and modifications these institutions are making to national and international standards.

Examine public input for the 2020 National Electrical Code that is relevant to the education facilities industry and prepare public comment. The last of three breakout teleconferences ahead of the August 30th deadline.